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Written in 1970 and unpublished until now. According to Platonic Doctrine, the “ideas of things” discussed in the preceding essay must refer back to the higher ideas and, in the end, to the one, the prelude, which deals with a critique of the ideas, is therefore followed by a fugue that criticizes the opinions concerning the One.
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This text was first published in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), pp. 379–400, and is a translation by Francis J. Zucker of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): IV.6.
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See Chap. 7 on “Parmenides and the Graylag Goose” in this volume.
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Cf. “Quantum Theory”, reprinted as Chap. 7 in: Michael Drieschner (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics (Cham et al.: Springer-Verlag, 2014) and originally published in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), pp. 181–222; it was translated by Francis J. Zucker from: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): III.5. Cf. here 7.2: “The Unity of Physics: Part One”.
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We will not refer to the Postulate of Finitism (Sect. 7.4. D of “Quantum Theory”, cf. footnote 3) in the present description of existing quantum theory. The theory sketched in Sect. 7.5 of “Quantum Theory” (cf. footnote 3) will also not be considered.
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Cf. “Matter, Energy, Information”, reprinted as Chap. 11 in: Michael Drieschner (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics (Cham et al.: Springer-Verlag, 2014) and originally published in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), pp. 274–294; it was translated by Francis J. Zucker from: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): III.5. Cf. here 11.6: “Mind and Form”.
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Metaphysics 1091 b 13, Eudemian Ethics 1218a19f.
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W. Wieland: Die aristotelische Physik (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1962). Though overemphatic in its language-analytical interpretation, this work offers an excellent analysis of the pluralism of principles.
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I essentially follow the interpretation of G. Picht, “Die Epiphanie der ewigen Gegenwart” in: Beiträge zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Festschrift für Wilhelm Szilasi (Munich, 1960). Reprinted in G. Picht, Wahrheit, Vernunft, Verantwortung (Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1969).
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Cf. Sects. 3.4.4–3.4.5 in this volume; cf. also I.5 of C. F. v. Weizsäcker: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), pp. 72–83; it was translated by Francis J. Zucker from: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): I.5.
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Cf. Sect. 3.4.5 in this volume.
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Explicitly so, for instance, in the Sophist 241 d 5.
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Cf. footnote 4 of “Parmenides and the Greylag Goose” in Chap. 7 in this volume.—Translator.
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In the last sentence of this quote, Weizsäcker's translation differs from Cornford’s; I follow the former. (Cf. the preceding footnote.) —Translator.
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Thus especially Suhr (1969).
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M. Suhr: op. cit, pp. 25–31.
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See Lynch (1959).
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In Drieschner’s axiomatic treatment, this point turns out to have fundamental significance. Cf. “Quantum Theory”, reprinted as Chap. 7 in: Michael Drieschner (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics (Cham et al.: Springer-Verlag, 2014) and originally published in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), pp. 181–222; it was translated by Francis J. Zucker from: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): II.5.
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Here I follow Weizsäcker's translation throughout, not Cornford's.—Translator.
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On this point and on the entire chapter, cf. Wyller (1960).
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2014). Parmenides and Quantum Theory. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03671-7_8
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